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by bildung 6y ago
This isn't how statistics work. Teslas are only about .1% of all cars in the US, and only a fraction of those have autopilot on. If autopilot is as safe as a human driver, we'd expect to see about 10000 cases of human stupidity fo
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by bildung 6y ago
> That is weak evidence in favour of there being innate gender differences. But my example showed that this isn't an innate gender difference. The effect disappeared after the kids grew up in another system. > As far as I ca
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by bildung 6y ago
> If it was equality of outcome that was officially mandated, that is exact opposite of true freedom of opportunity. I have said nothing about equality of outcome. There is no freedom of opportunity without societal context. I am, as
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by bildung 6y ago
Except Tesla didn't actually stated that goal, or did it? Now that quite a few established companies have EV models on the market Teslas exponential growth phase seems to be over, at least in Europe. Tesla is already down to third plac
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by bildung 6y ago
It's actually over 11%, as stated on your link, isn't it? The US was the biggest contributor with 20% (on paper, it didn't actually wire all this money to the WHO, only signed the contracts), which is now zero.
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by bildung 6y ago
> Also JBP is simply quoting the research in the social and psychological and psychometric fields that already exists He isn't, that is the main criticism. He usually uses actual research, yes, but then extrapolates widely and wit
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by bildung 6y ago
I mean things like "Stability and Growth Pact", which Poland simply ignored post 2008, which probably is the reason you didn't notice: Poland breached the deficit/GDP rule from 2008-2014, while Italy only did from 2009-2
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by bildung 6y ago
Keep in mind Italy joined the Euro in 2002, and still managed to steadily reduce debt until the crisis. Full agreement on the importance of the possibility of devaluation, though.
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by bildung 6y ago
Toyota has developed its own EV platform and "intends to globally sell 5.5 million electrified vehicles every year by 2025". https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34896309/toyota-electric-...
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by bildung 6y ago
> Who came up with the idea that the WHO is "chinese controlled"? Indeed, this only is the case because the US chose to withdrew funding from the WHO (it hasn't really paid what it has underwritten before), while China s
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by bildung 6y ago
1: Suddenly there are confounding factors? Why didn't that stop you from claiming the correlation in the first place? 2: This isn't how taxes work. High-tax countries essentially do collective purchases with that money, which usua
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by bildung 6y ago
Italy was perfectly fine before the 2008 crisis, and Italy's current position would certainly be better without the EU's austerity nonsense post 2008. There just is no intrinsically Italian "mess". Italy had constantly s
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by bildung 6y ago
Individual home ownership is not a good metric for the state of the middle classes, and the exception Germany illustrates it well: With renter-friendly regulations and high shares of public or semi-public (cooperatives etc.) ownership of ho
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by bildung 6y ago
Why would it? One could easily argue the opposite, because high taxes usually means high social safety and thus lower risk for personal finance catastrophes. Edit: I looked it up, there is no correlation between high taxes and personal debt
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by bildung 6y ago
How is that different from stock Android, besides this being per app and having to give blanket permission for all things Google right at installation of stock Android?
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by bildung 6y ago
Why do single out exactly these two countries and not the dozens with higher footprint per capita? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ecologica...
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by bildung 6y ago
> Very few of our politicians are climate change deniers No idea whether 10 years made much of a difference, but in 2011 it was "more than half of the Republicans in the House and three-quarters of Republican senators" said &
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by bildung 6y ago
Yeah, Marx wasn't shy of stating opinions at all, that's for sure. What is driving the innovation though, in Marx' theory, are the market forces. The bourgeoisie as the class of capital owners has to innovate to stay comp
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by bildung 6y ago
The problem is that there are always examples where such witnesses or whistleblowers were planted by actors in the US, like Li-Meng Yan, a supposed whistleblower supported by Steve Bannon. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/1
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by bildung 6y ago
> and comes from a marxian historical analysis I doubt that. Marxism is essentially a modified labor theory of value, in the line of Smith and Ricardo. It says the source of value lies in the productive output of the working classes. I
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by bildung 6y ago
> This is a political problem which has nothing to do to with technology or costs themselves. No, nowhere in the world is nuclear power economically competitive. Construction costs are about 3x-4x the cost per kW compared to solar or w
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by bildung 6y ago
> From what I can see fission reactors are doing just fine in France and Belgium. They aren't, France has had nuclear for geopolitical reasons, not primarily economic ones. And now that these plants are old, they won't be rep
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by bildung 6y ago
For the last 60 years even! Fusion power was ~20 years away in Stanislaw Lems Summa Technologicae in 1961.
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by bildung 6y ago
The technology angle in the article is not quite what I meant. Alexander looked at how low-skill jobs and high-skill jobs developed, i.e. the new demand for high-skill jobs was not enough to get a higher share of the profits, but what I mea
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by bildung 6y ago
It is mentioned in passing, but not discussed in depth. I don't think it plays a large role (mostly because it was a consequence of the economic development - they didn't just went off gold because they felt like it), most impor
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by bildung 6y ago
That page reminds me a bit of time cube :) Here is a good introductory article about the topic: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/25/wage-stagnation-much-m... TL;DR: Inflation plays at most a secondary role,
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by bildung 6y ago
I hardly doubt you'll find any enconomist working in those corporations fearing inflation. Inflation has been a non-issue since the 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Consumer_Price_I...
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by bildung 6y ago
The only intermediate step is the fact that the amount of currency in circulation needs to raise. As that isn't possible with bitcoin, the price has to rise. And that increases the incentive for throwing more recourses into mining.
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by bildung 6y ago
No, it isn't dumb. The monetary base currently provided by bitcoin is tiny. If an economy would switch to bitcoin as it's currency, the amount of BTC in circulation would need to gain multiple zeroes. As bitcoin has a fixed cap, t
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by bildung 6y ago
There is also Ferdinand Braudel, who published 3 works about peasant live in the 15th to 18th century: "The Structures of Everyday Life", "The Wheels of Commerce" and "The Perspective of the World". I found the

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